Jambo
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Recently my Vista ultimate seems to be slow as fuck. Its got 4gb ram, oooooooodles of memeory (500gb HD) no games on it at all, just itunes really.
Log in screen comes on, enter password: Then its about 3-4mins before i can actually use the pc. It loads the desktop and icons but you cant click anything, its almost as if the computer has stopped as theres no whirring or "thinking" sounds and its usually quite noisy.
Machine is only about 10months old:
Spec:
Vista Ultimate
AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core processor 5600
4gb ram
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
Any ideas??
[Edited on 26-02-2009 by Jambo]
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Neo
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Urm
Disable Aero if its turned on
Make sure nothing is in your start up that you dont need
Make sure automatic updates are turned off (sometimes when you log in it installs auto updates, if one of the updates is corrupted it'll keep trying each time you log in and failing at the same point). Run auto update once logged in and see if it has anything to install or download :Thumbs:
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Jambo
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cleared my startup programs.
Aero?? is that a process or a programme?
I have auto updates switched on, so ill check them manually for now on.
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Matt L
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mines quite slow lately keep meaning to change the start up stuff  never got round to it though.
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Hammer
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Mine is the same as this recently, I put it down to the fact my pc is clogged full of pornography.
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Matt L
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i blame photoshop for mine tbh gonna go throught the start up options though when i get home.
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Jambo
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
Mine is the same as this recently, I put it down to the fact my pc is clogged full of pornography.
i put all mine onj my external HD and never switch it on at startuip so cant be to blame!
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Aaron
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Solution:
Format and install Windows XP
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dannymccann
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Is it trying to install some massive Windows Update?
Click 'Start' then type 'msconfig' in the bar and open that up, then go to the 'Startup' tab and disable anything which you dont need starting up on boot.
If you arent sure what something is, either leave it on, or google the process (unknownprocess.exe) and you can find out what it does and if you need it, might also find some nasty malware that way
edit - You have done a malware and virus scan, havent you?
[Edited on 25-02-2009 by dannymccann]
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Jambo
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done ,alware scan nout found, have checked the box for updates that install only when i say so.
Going to check processes now 
Oh and XP sucks compared to vista
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Jambo
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itunes quicktime and my cd burning programme had slipped into my start up, that and turning off updates seemed to have done the trick
Cheers guys
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willay
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4gb of ram and it runs slow, vista is really an abortion of the windows family. I thought Microsoft would of learnt their lesson with Windows ME but no, they just had to shoot themselfs again. Jambo, sadly if you think XP sucks compared to Vista, there is no hope for you in the computing scene, ever. Even Microsoft admitted it sucked when they were show boating Windows 7
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John
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It's not vista causing it to run slow willay  there is always something there causing it.
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willay
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vista on its own runs like shit too, regardless of what you put on it. not worth a wank.
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John
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:@
Have you used windows 7 yet?
I gave up after approximately 5 minutes because of the task bar, they better fix that before release.
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willay
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had a play about within a VM, I dont even run windows at home anymore.
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John
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Everytime I try to use linux I need to compile programs to install them and I giev up 
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Jambo
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Willay i dont know about IT gubbins im no geek. However i find the menu's, the look and the layout all 500% better than XP, more logical and more pleasing to the eye.
It was Itunes causing the pc to run slow not Vista.
That said XP was faster in general i think and thats when i had 512mb ram on my old machine.
I prefer it anyway
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dannymccann
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Glad its sorted  Quicktime isnt too much bother, I found iTunes to be a bitch however 
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Neo
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auto updates was the bain of my life at my previous job, without running manually after a week every machine started to die and we had 800 machines between 3 people !
TBH XP is superior to vista, embedded cut to exactly what you need is superior over xp (imo ofc)
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PhilC
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Kinda off topic, but is that CPU the 65nm Brisbane version?? Is it any good? Thinking of ordering one.
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Jambo
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is windows 7 the replacement/next step up from vista?!
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pow
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7 is the upgrade yus.
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Everytime I try to use linux I need to compile programs to install them and I giev up
I run FreeBSD 7.1 at home, and compile everything from source apart from gnome. 
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pow
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Dont run XP at home and more Will
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